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Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
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Dark Shadows Falling

by Joe Simpson

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Much soul searching as to the state of modern climbing and the state of mind of the people who undertake it, with special reference to larger commercial expeditions. ( )
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The author of Touching the Void interweaves stories of his own mountaineering adventures with reflective consideration of recent tragedies on the world's loftiest peaks. As more people take to the mountains--many of them amateurs and dilettantes who can afford to hire guides of varying levels of expertise--the odds of disaster loom ever higher. Simpson weighs in on "summit fever," the treatment of local sherpas, and what he sees as unimaginative "yak routes" up the once-grand mountains.

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